HD Install :: Persistent myDSL extensions

So would it be acceptable to modify the lilo.conf to increase the ramdisk size? Or is that not a good idea? It makes me wonder how the frugal install can be useful if you cannot load any extenions to anywhere but the ramdisk. On an older machine would the HD install be a better option?

Thanks,
jags78

Jags heres what i learned and implemented:

1)store all your DSL extensoions in your /mnt/hda5/home/dsl/My-DSL (or where ever you wanna store the dsl directory.

2)symlink the DSL extension into /cdrom (if you try to put 5 megs of extensions in a full up 50meg partition thats holding your boot image it will complain, symlinks are tiny tho, so can put loads of those in

)

3) if swap is not active then boot from CDRom with "dsl 2 vga=xxx"
dsl@box~$ sudo su
bash-2.05b# swapon /dev/hda6 (or whatever partition your swap is on)
reboot

4) if this post was correct you should now buy a 6pack of fat tire ale and drink one for me

Have fun and let us know if it works out.

Rob

starcannon, just some comments. That is a rather novel approach.
It may work for well your specific setup, but ...
1 It assumes a frugal with persistent home otherwise the mount of your hda5 would not be there for the symlinks to work.
2. Storing extensions in the home directory is generally not a good approach. Most users not using a persistent home would then have those huge static extensions be backed and restored with every boot.

In general, extensions should be separate from /home/dsl so as to not be in the backup. Should one wish to use that feature.

With DSL there are so many ways to do things.

Quote (roberts @ Jan. 09 2006,19:51)

Roberts thats a good point,
as i forgot to mention i listed my "My-DSL" directory in my "/home/dsl/.xfiletool.lst" as well as any other directories that i have made static, in this way i have lots of files on my HDD but my backup.tar.gz remains small.

Anyway i use this aproach on both frugal installs that i'm running, and lovin it, i was unclear how to aproach it when confronted with the idea of a 50~60mb boot partition so this seemed the logical aproach for me. Anyway i ramble on.

I'm a noob to DSL yet, but learning fast, if you find my aproach useful cool, if not i'm all ears to a better way.

Rob

I am always interested in how people use software that I write.
Many times, I learn of alternate ways to use it as well.

I just wanted to be sure that there is not confusion with so many new users comming to our site.

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